An unidentified woman and her son lost their lives in the early hours of Friday when a truck crashed into three commercial buses at the Ketu end of the popular Ikorodu Road in Lagos.
According to eyewitnesses, who spoke with our correspondent shortly after the incident, the driver of the truck carrying two fully loaded containers and marked Lagos SMK98XF lost control of the vehicle before ramming into the buses which were picking passengers on the road.
Two of the buses were marked Lagos SMK-406XF and Lagos KH318-KRD. The third which why a TATA luxury bus had been moved away from the scene when our correspondent arrived.
One of the containers fell on the victims while the other destroyed the buses completely, dragging them more than 10 meters from the point of first contact. Shoes, clothes and other items belonging to victims littered the scene of the sad event.
An official of the Federal Road Safety Corps, who was among several uniformed personnel on ground controlling the large crowd that gathered at the scene of the accident, told Saturday PUNCH that about eight injured persons were rescued from the buses before being rushed to the hospital.
Commercial buses plying the route are notorious for indiscriminate picking of passengers on the service and express lanes thereby causing gridlock almost throughout the day.
